Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-05-21


direct the Irish clergy to abstain from asso-
clatlng themselves with Eg1tators.
A report comes from the Ohildren's home
at Newark, Ohio, Of the whipping unmerci-
fully a 14-year-Old boy, an inmate, named
Phillips, By the gardener, a man named
James 1t is stated the two were playing,
When James attempted 10 put the boy into
barrel of water. The latter threw some Of
the water on James, when he seized a buggy
whip and punished him terribly. 1t is said
the boys face, neck, back, and legs are
literally covered with large Welts, aEd that
james even made him get down on his knees
while being so severely punished. A warrant
for James arrest has been sworn out.
BaIfOur, chief secretary for Ireland, viii
retire from ONCE after the passage Of the
crimes bill.
A " cordial understanding regarding the
neutrality Of the Suez canal ia said to have
been reached b. France and England.
The enterprising public educator who
feeds the London end Of the cable with the
graphic and picturesque account OF Queen
NictOria's visit to an American snap, &"
known az the % Wild West Show" 1t ap-
pears that her majesty, accompanied by
divers princes princessess dOWager Ouch
essess lad es IN waiting. maids Of honor,
marq ulses, dukes, and other court nOtabil-
tiles attended the performance, with which
/ they were so highly delighted that the queen
made her Acknowledgement in person TO
Z" Buffalo Bill" "Red Shirt 4" and other
curiOaIties Of the show. the details OF this
highly important event are set forth very
FULLY, and the report as whole ls highly
oreditable to the enterprise and skill of the
London news agent.
John Sherman has accepted an invitation
| from republican members of the Illinois
| legislature to deliver a political address at
| Springfield on June 1 next.
The Western Gas-Light association held
It's annual convention at St Louis Officers
were elected. and the next convention fixed
for May, 1888, in Chicago. Papers were
read relative to the 81 Reduction in the Cost
I of Production and Improvement in the
| Quality of Coal Gas" No attempt, how
ever, seems to have been made to explain
why consumers derive no benefit from the
/ alleged " reduction " and " improvement. -
The attorney general has filed a motion
/ in the supreme court for q reconsideration
OF the Maxwell Immigrant case.
It Is rumored at Des MOines that Mr..
Blaine has decided to nominate Mr.. Allison
| for president next year. The news Is unim-
portaut If true, If Mr.. Blaine can not
/ not be able to nominate anybody else.
In consequence of the lockout Of me
master masOns in Chicago there are now
I over ten thousand building labOrsrs out of
| employment and the army is being daily
/ added to. The brickmakers, and other ma
| tractors and sell nothing during the trouble.
R. G. Dun & Co. in Their weekly trade
review declare that a great revolution in
| business Is going on, which they attribute
partly to the operations of the interstate
| commerce act and partly to the expansion
l IN the volume and changes in the kind OF
| currency. It appears that the smaller towns
| generally are being benefited by the in
! terstate law, while the great ceHters are
/ suffering. The output of pig-irOn Is in
] rHHEra harzra
! been checked by the recent ad vance in prices.
/ The business failures during the last seven
/ days in the United States and Canada num-
Der 167, as against 176 during the correspond
ing period Of last year.
The final adjournment Of the Illinois
legislature has been fixed for June ID.
1t is said that the time and place Of hold
/ ing the Ohio democratic convention were
fixed by the cOal-Ol faction with a view TO
circumVenting a movement for the nomina-
/ ton of Thurman for governor.
/ The whaling bark Europe, owned at New
| Bedford, Massachusetts, has been wrecked
OF the Japan coast, the entire crew Of
/ thirty-tWO perishing.
! General master workman POwderly has
/ issued a circular recommending that the
/ Knights of labor celebrate the Fourth of
/ July with appropriate demonstrations Wher-
/ ever an assembly is in existence.
! It Is understood at Vienna that Russia is
| trying to induce the Persian government to
release AyOub Khan, for whose safe keeping
England pays subsidy.
The extensive shops Of the Minneapolis
| and st. Louis railroad at Minneapolis have
been burned with e loss Of $3.50, 900. A fire
/ at Milton, Missouri, destroyed the county
| jail and a number Of business structuresj
loss, $35, 900.
Destructive forest fires are raging in the
northern peninsula Of Michigan, and in
| Wisconsin near WauKesha. A IRE that
/ started near Bourne, Massachusetts, has
already burned over nearly $1,000 acres.
A Cairo dispatch says the new convention
| between Great Britain and the porte stipula-
tes that the period of British occupation Of
Egypt shall not be less than two nor more
than five years.
It is rumOred at Boston that the Ocean
King, the largest American ship ahlat, las
| been burned at sea while bound from
/ NauaimO, British Columbia. to San Pedro.
The relation between DR.. MoGlynn and
/ the Vatican continue to be strained" II
is announced from Rome that the con-
tUmaciOus priest is to be formally eZcom-
municated unless he presents himself before
the 'suFpreme eeelesiesticel authority
within forty days.